To: rj45mis
Interestingly, there were alot of "international events" that the American people didn't know about under Clinton, because our media didn't want to fill his plate. Just as he turned away from the genocide in Rawanda...and waged a war in the Balkans, he also ignored the atrocities in East Timor and Indonesia.
While I don't know (historically) a lot about the unrest in East Timor, there seems to be some hypocrisy in the way Clinton sided with the Muslim secessionist in Kosovo, while he not only ignored the Christian secessionist in East Timor, he allowed an even greater genocide to take place as Muslims fanatics slaughtered Christians by the thousands. Even worse, his close, personal relationship with one of Indonesia's leading citizens (Riady), guaranteed US support for the Indonesian government which was carrying out the atrocities.
For those ignorant people who like to blame America...and our support of Israel as an excuse for Muslim discontent, one only has to look around the world and see how Muslims are disconetent living next to anyone who is not Muslim. The very fact that we have not only ignored much of their aggression...but have also sided with them in many instances (Balkans, Kuwait, Indonesia, ect.) just shows how Islam does not want to live in peace with its neighbors. We placated and appeased these people throughtout the 1990s, and we still suffered our greatest humiliation at their hands on 9/11. We did offer them the Olive branch...and they broke it.
18 posted on
04/17/2004 10:44:50 AM PDT by
cwb
(Kerry: Sadr is a legitimate voice in Iraq being silenced by America..and Hamas are sorta terrorists.)
To: cwb
What an indictment of the media's complicity in the deaths of countless innocents. Thanks for your response.
23 posted on
04/17/2004 3:11:16 PM PDT by
rj45mis
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